Bainbridge Bachelors' Club
1895
The "Bachelors' Club" is one of the most important organizations in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]. The sorrow and pleasure it generates make it twice as significant, and twice as interesting, while joy and mirth reign supreme at the daily evening session. While the proprietor of the store, who is not a bachelor, waits on his customers, and as the Havana aroma arises in graceful ascendancy amid the jocund and joke-filled atmosphere around the stove, the members of the club with chivalrous joy and social accomplishments meet together. No officers predominate to rule the session for agreeableness flows and wit is crowned as a royal joy of the occasion. Bachelors are Bradley J. Smith, the Achilles of Bachelors, Ike Yale, Saxa Newton, and his brother Al, Mr. Copley, for whom many a maiden has allowed her heart to swell in songs of sweetest composition, but whose refrain has been the old familiar "lovelorn" tune; Herb Ramsdell locates himself in the circle. Mr. Copley is quiet but speaks a little sarcasm and from this it is uncertain whether he will be a member of the association after the elapse of the next three months. Through Newton's jest, Smith's tales, Copley's jokes, Ramsdell's stillness and Yale's sarcasm, 7 o'clock gets around before anyone is aware, and then the club is ready to adjourn as Mr. Copley girds up his loins for a departure for a long walk out into the "country," then when he goes the rest take leave, wondering why he goes, and it is always discussed at the next meeting with blushes from the "pedestrian" members and the speculations why it is a fact that the sessions do not continue longer.
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